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A Painting....

I visited a friend of mine at her moms house tonight after work. I've been there about 4 or 5 times, but today I saw a painting for the first time. It was a print/poster in a beautiful frame hanging in her dinning room. It was huge! With a vase of yellow tulips below. And I had a moment. Norman Rockwell .... Golden Rule.

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Good old Rockwell - the critics never liked him, but he was a true master. I understand his usual method involved finding people with looks he liked and posing and costuming them in accordance with his idea, and after that he would paint from the photograph. This takes a lot more skill, vision, and hard work than one might think - especially a critic!

My favourite Artist ever, of all time, unquestionably, is Ingres. I absolutely love ALL his works and I could sit and gaze at them for hours.... I once took my husband to an exhibition of his work at the Tate, in London, and made him close his eyes as I led him gently, and stood him before the imposing grandeur of the quasi-life-size portrait of the Emperor Napoleon. When he opened his eyes, a rare thing happened: it smote him speechless.

No photo or picture can ever hope to do the portrait justice, and until you've seen the brush-strokes up close, you cannot begin to imagine the dedication, skill and expertise that went into creating such a timeless masterpiece....

Ingres was heavily criticised for his style and depiction at the time (it took him 3 years to complete it) but the portrait is now considered to be one of the finest examples of technical work in existence.
So much so that at the Exhibition at the Tate, it had its own display chamber, with singularly specific lighting.... Showing it to my husband is something I shall not forget. Wonderful moment.

If I were stranded on a desert Island and could take but one work of Art, This would be it.

If you do a google search on "Buddhist abstract art" you can find some pretty interesting things on the internet. It would be nice if there was an actual gallery... but I think in the Far East the preferred art styles are much more concrete, and there is not much market even though there are many Buddhists.